Title: Replication File for "Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive"
Journal: International Political Science Review
DOI: 
Link: 
Authors:  Lars Lott, Katrin Kinzelbach, and Staffan I. Lindberg 
Correspondence: Lars Lott, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (lars.lott@fau.de)
Date: July 28th, 2025

Required Software: R and RStudio (4.5 or Above). 
Additional required software packages and libraries are specified in the replication code. User should install the respective libraries by their own. 

Overview: These files replicate all analyses presented in �Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive�, International Political Science Review. 

To replicate all analyses and figures, download all data files to a folder entitled �~/data�, create folders in the same Directory for the different original data. 
The R scripts are stored in the main folder. Create also an folder named "~/outputs".

The data folder contains all data that is necessary to computationally reproduce the results presented in this article and the supplementary appendix. Please consider the folder structure in the data folder. 

%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Replication Code for each Table and Figure in Main Paper %%%%%%%%%%%%%%

%%% Table 1 %%%
To reproduce Table 2, run 01_data_wrangling.R

%%% Table 2 %%%
To reproduce Table 2, run 01_data_wrangling.R 

%%% Table 3 %%%
To reproduce Table 3, run 02_data_analysis_democracies.R

%%% Table 4 %%%
To reproduce Table 4, run 02_data_analysis_democracies.R

%%% Table 5 %%%
To reproduce Table 5, run 02_data_analysis_democracies.R

%%% Figure 1 %%%%
To reproduce Figure 1, run 01_data_wrangling.R

%%% Figure 2 %%%%
To reproduce Figure 2, run 02_data_analysis_democracies.R

%%% Figure 3 %%%%
To reproduce Figure 3, run 02_data_analysis_democracies.R

%%% Figure 4 %%%%
To reproduce Figure 4, run 02_data_analysis_democracies.R

%%% Figure 5 %%%%
To reproduce Figure 5, run 02_data_analysis_democracies.R

%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Replication Code for each Table and Figure in Appendix %%%%%%%%%%%%%%

%%% Table A1 %%%
To reproduce Table A1, run 01_data_wrangling.R

%%% Table A2 %%%
Manually constructed by literature review not R-code

%%% Table A3 %%%
To reproduce Table A3, run 03_data_analysis_democracies_without_uncer.R

%%% Table A4 %%%
To reproduce Table A4, run 03_data_analysis_democracies_without_uncer.R

%%% Table A5 %%%
To reproduce Table A5, run 03_data_analysis_democracies_without_uncer.R

%%% Table A6 %%%
To reproduce Table A6, run 03_data_analysis_democracies_without_uncer.R

%%% Table A7 %%%
To reproduce Table A7, run 03_data_analysis_democracies_without_uncer.R

%%%Figure A1 %%%
To reproduce Figure A1, run 03_data_analysis_democracies_without_uncer.R

%%%Figure A2 %%%
To reproduce Figure A2, run 03_data_analysis_democracies_without_uncer.R

%%%Figure A3 %%%
To reproduce Figure A3, run 03_data_analysis_democracies_without_uncer.R

%%%Figure A4 %%%
To reproduce Figure A4,  run 03_data_analysis_democracies_without_uncer.R

%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Data Files (relative path "~/data") %%%%%%%%%%%%%%

%%%% bmr folder %%%%
-Boix Miller Rosate Regime Type Data

%%%% episode_data %%%%
-includes data from Lott (2024) for Academic Freedom Growth and Decline Episodes

%%%% EPSM dataset folder %%%%
-includes data from Education Policies and Systems across Modern History, 
- M. Lutscher, Sirianne Dahlum, Felix Haass, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Adri�n del R�o, Jonas Schmid, see codebook

%%%% vdem14 folder %%%%
-includes data from V-Dem dataset Version 14. 

%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Output Files (relative path "~/results") %%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Stored tables and figures original data

